FEUDALISM AND

THE BLACK
DEATH
Camila Ximena Jiménez Correa
Fatima Geraldine Valer Torreblanca
FEUDALISM AND FEUDAL SYSTEM IN ENGLAND

Was the combination of the legal,

economic, military, cultural and
political customs.
The word, "feudalism", was not a
medieval term
WHAT ARE THE FIEF ?

A small piece of land granted to

someone for their services
Include territory, land, terrain, realm,
domain, and field.
WHAT ARE THE MANOR?

A manor was usually comprised of

tracts of agricultural land
Also have had woods, orchards,
gardens, and lakes or ponds where fish
could be found.
The Feudal System Pyramid

Kings and Queens

Also know as
monarch.
Keep order and
provide protect to
their vassals.
The Feudal System Pyramid

Lords and Ladies

Are nobles and are the

second highest rank in
medieval hierarchy.
The Feudal System Pyramid

Knights

Knights are warriors in

the army that rode on
horse back.
To be knights takes
years.
The Feudal System Pyramid

Peasants and Serfs

Peasants were
freemen and serfs
were not free.
Serfs worked the land
and performed
services for him.
What was the Domesday Book?

Is a manuscript completed in 1086

Written in Medieval Latin, it was highly abbreviated
and included some vernacular native terms
without Latin equivalents.
The name "Domesday Book" came into use in the
12th century
The manuscript is held at The National Archives at
Kew, London.
The decline of Feudalism

For centuries, feudalism had been the

dominant form of the social organization of
much of Europe
The Catholic Church was a major factor in the
decline of feudalism.
The “Magna Carta” was the first thing that
caused the downfall of feudalism
REASONS FOR THE DECLINE OF
FEUDALISM

Rise of the bourgeoisie.

Demographic decline.
New forms of economic
development.
Discontent of the
peasants.
Growth of cities.
WHAT WAS THE BLACK DEATH? WHERE HE
CAME FROM?

In the commercial city of Caffa

(present-day Feodosia), on the
Crimean peninsula, on the
shores of the Black Sea.
The plague bacillus enters the
body through the bite and
travels through the lymphatic
system to the nearest lymph
node, where it multiplies.
SOME STORIES ABOUT THE BLACK DEATH IN
ENGLAND.
A) THE FLAGELLANT SECTS
GAINED MEMBERS AT THE TIME
These flagellants sought to purify
themselves. The public self-
flagellation of these groups could
be very disturbing to the
surrounding community.
Therefore, the authorities used to
repress them.
 B) THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE BLACK
DEATH LED TO THE CREATION OF THE GREAT
REACTOR
Many paintings show Death
swinging his scythe through a
crowd of people, reaping souls like
grain. Sometimes the Grim Reaper
was also shown with an hourglass,
which could symbolize the notion
that “time has run out” for the dead
person whose soul the Grim Reaper
is harvesting.
 C) THE PLAGUE DOCTORS WITH THEIR
BEAK-SHAPED MASKS COULD BE SEEN ALL
OVER EUROPE
With their typical long, dark
robes, gloves and hats, along
with their unique beak-shaped
masks, they were unlike
anyone else in medieval
society. These masks were
designed to protect them
from “bad air,” which was
considered the cause of
infection.
EXPLAIN HOW IT SPREAD IN THE DIFFERENT
CONTINENTS AND HOW IT ARRIVED ON THE
ISLE.

The rats scampered the ropes

that connected the ship to the
docks, ports or berths, which
were surrounded by people.
 The contagion could have
occurred through merchant ships
coming from the city of
Amsterdam. The plague spread
south and north into the English
countryside in the early 1590s,
contaminating rodent reservoirs
around farms and towns until
finally reaching London in the
summer of 1592.
EXPLAIN WHAT THEY DID ON THE ISLAND TO
TREAT IT. METHODS TO KEEP THE DISEASE
OUTSIDE.

quicklime fire
better sanitation.
 If a group of 21st century doctors had
been able to travel to London in 1665 in a
time machine with a shipment of penicillin,
they would have ended the plague in a
matter of days. It would have been so
easy...
They would have been enough to point out
that the rats served as incubators, the
fleas were their missiles and that a tiny
weapon of mass destruction called
yersinia pestis lived inside them.